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Using Measurement to Drive Cross-Sector Alignment Towards Equitable Health Outcomes: An Environmental Scan Report

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This environmental scan offers an overview of the breadth and variability within the landscape of cross-sector alignment initiatives and the many different ways in which these initiatives use measurement.

Achieving health equity requires creating aligned systems that work together to meet the goals and needs of the people they serve. Shared measurement can help galvanize and sustain the infrastructure, governance, and incentive changes needed for lasting cross-sector alignment that advances health equity. But many questions remain about what characteristics of measurement support alignment and how measurement across sectors can be implemented in ways that are meaningful to and will benefit communities in equitable ways.

The report sheds light on three research questions:
1. How do existing efforts use measurement as a lever to create alignment among sectors in addressing health equity?
2. What features of measurement drive alignment across sectors for community well-being?
3. What cross-sector metrics are most commonly used as “north stars” or targets to measure health and community well-being?

Publication

A Theory of Change for Aligning Health Care, Public Health, and Social Services in the Time of COVID-19

This article, published by Georgia Health Policy Center researchers in the American Journal of Public Health, highlights how the core components of cross-sector alignment along with the principles of community voice and health equity can be used to design interactions among health care, public health, and social services that better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve in a way that is built to last.

Publication

Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response

This article highlights how systems are investing in workers who come from the communities they serve to meet patient needs that extend well beyond clinic walls.

Brief

Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19: How Alignment Can Aid the COVID-19 Response

This brief examines emerging anecdotal evidence that shows communities with the core components of cross-sector alignment (shared purpose, data, financing, and governance) already in place may be able to quickly apply this way of thinking and working to rapidly arising threats, like COVID-19.